: Tokyo 2020, women’s weightlifting 49kg: Mirabai Chanu carries the weight of India’s expectations #IndiaNEWS As the Olympics draw closer, many of us dig deep into an athlete’s competitive history.

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Tokyo 2020, women’s weightlifting 49kg: Mirabai Chanu carries the weight of India’s expectations #IndiaNEWS
As the Olympics draw closer, many of us dig deep into an athlete’s competitive history. We look at their highs and their lows and the lessons that those victories and defeats might have taught them.It is the same for Saikhom Mirabai Chanu as well.As a 21-year-old, she had gone to Rio 2016 after breaking N Kunjarani Devi’s record of lifting a total weight of 190kg with a combined lift of 192kg. Most observers expected her to put up a creditable performance. But instead, something went wrong; something went very wrong. Mirabai Chanu: Carrying the weight of expectations ahead of Tokyo Olympics with a sense of calmIn a field of 12 lifters on the women’s 48kg category, she ended up as one of two lifters who did not finish her event.Mirabai failed to lift 104kg in her first attempt in clean and jerk, followed by two more attempts to pick up 106kg. In her second and third attempts, the Indian simply couldn’t lift the weight which was below her then personal best of 107 kg.In fact out of six chances – three in snatch and three in clean and jerk – Mirabai got only one successful lift. The pressure of the first Olympic Games proved to be...Read more

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